Dentists - Rant 5

OK, so after the first couple of 'dentist rants' I promised myself that I wouldn't rant any more??!!


.............BUT seriously...................  I sooooooo HATE my dentist that I have to rant.


He is the most patronising, aggrogrant, person that I have ever met.


He had a new dental assistant with him today.  Very lovely lady (probably in her 50s) and he described me to her as 'dental phobic'.  Duh???  I'm not actually 'dental phobic'??  I'm just dental phobic with him???  He is one of the most patronising people I have ever met in my whole life.


Do you use an electric toothbrush, do you floss, do you do this, do you do that???


These are the same questions that he asks me every single time that I go.  And every single time he spends hours writing stuff down.  I really feel like saying you recorded this the last time............  But of course I don't because I'm too scared.  He's the professional so he must know what he's doing.


I have to learn to stand up to this man??  The trouble is my last dentist (who retired due to ill health was lovely).


Today, he didn't even clean my teeth.  He just took an Xray of them and when I said he'd done this recently he said it was a year ago and then muttered something about Xrays having to be taken every two years???  So why is he taking one after only a year???


And then he went on and on and on and on about me seeing the dental hygienist for some sort of deep clean.  But today he didn't call it a deep clean; he called it an 'advanced clean'.  And apparently it's going to take about 4-5 appointments to do this and my gums will be numbed and everything will be hunky dory.  Somehow I don't think that will happen.


I soooooooo, soooooooo hate these so called professionals.


As far as I'm concerned; if you don't want to treat me; just tell me...................


................You're not the only dentist in the whole wide world.  I'll find someone else.